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JEFFERY, Ron Red runs the vistula ISBN 13 : 9780908734009

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Excellent first hand account of a British soldier working for the Polish Underground. Captures well the tensions and dangers of underground work in German-occupied Poland. --- This book is written by a man whose makeup precludes any personal considerations once a well pondered decision to pursue a certain course of action has been taken. It is a unique and amazing account of lone daring and survival, through a combination of good luck, linguistic ability, and a variable personality of almost hypnotic potency. Ron Jeffery left Europe in disgust, to settle after the war under the soothing influence of a Polynesian sun in the far away Pacific. A niggling conscience about the fate which befell his war-time adopted country, Poland, refused to abate and grew with time. The recognition of similar pressures being applied by Soviet communism in all countries of the remaining free world, precluded a permanent and peaceful enjoyment of hard work and play in a new land. "Red Runs the Vistula" is a first step towards salving his conscience. The story bolstered by the author's sense of humour embraces a wide field of human behaviour. Love and hate mingle with laughter and tears, courage and cowardice, loyalty and treachery, living and dying. All these emotions are portrayed in an unprecedented sequence of of events which make for entertaining and disturbing reading. In addition to portraying the day to day life of a beleaguered people, the book deals with the fight of the Underground movement in Poland during the Nazi occupation. The author's own hazardous past as a Brit in varying sections of the Polish Resistance recounts one of the most exceptional careers of all time. His penetration of Hitler's headquarters remained unfruitful, its massive potential sabotaged by traitors inside London and Warsaw in 1944.

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  • ÉditeurNevron Associates
  • Date d'édition1989
  • ISBN 10 090873400X
  • ISBN 13 9780908734009
  • ReliureBroché
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